Today, most Cuban ex-pats around the world are celebrating his death.
Liberal Arts students across the Western World are saddened.
To me that's funny.
Liberal Arts students across the Western World are saddened.
To me that's funny.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13042460 and marked it off-topic.
These days it's like superhuman to be able to look at an issue from two sides.
And my comment is not trolling.
I was seeing all the news of Cubans around the world celebrating, and then reading some comments here, in the Guardian, in the Globe and Mail - and noting the differences.
It's shocking to see so many people support someone who was almost so cruel.
'Please help us, this man we escaped is a totalitarian'
'Oh, you just don't understand your experience, we agree with this ideology and anti-Americanism, so whatever happened to you - it couldn't have been that bad, let's not judge him'.
It's one of those things that really tells us a lot about people.
Meanwhile, the liberal arts students may have learned to compare Cuba to other and similar countries and draw their conclusions. I have referred to the HDI in a different post where Cuba ranks 40. I have also traveled extensively throughout Latin America and lived there for some time. So I can make some comparisons as well.